Re: creating a metadata set

On Monday 28 February 2005 01:39, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> Andy wrote:
> > Hi Guido,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  It seems one needs to create a metadata set in
> > xml on the fs and then import it into silva.  Seems to save my
> > MultiListFields just fine.  Seems like using the ZMI to create metadata
> > for silva was never tested.  I guess that's why the link in the
> > service_metadata says 'Browse' and not 'Manage', and also why there is no
> > 'export as xml' feature.  At least the latter would be nice, since one
> > who isn't familiar with the xml format could use the ZMI to create the
> > set, and then export.  Anyways, just a dream I guess ;-)
> >
> > Thanks so much for the help!
>
> You can export a set, by appending 'exportXML' to the URL to the set in de
> service_metadata.
>
> Still, creating sets in the ZMI shold still work (although is has some
> rather icky UI aspects, to say the least..). I'll have a look into this.
> Can you tell me what Silva and what SilvaMetadata version you're using?

Silva 1.1.1, SilvaMetadata 0.8.  I have a number of customizations, but 
nothing that would affect silvametadata.

> Further more, some field types have problems when saving metadata, where
> the (multi)checkbox field is most obvious. If an enduser unchecks a
> checkbox, it is not in the POST request. The current metadata system then
> regards this field as not set at all and leaves the current value alone.
> IOW, a checkbox can be set, but not unset anymore...
Yea, I've noticed that in the past, and I think I used a different field type 
instead.
>
> I did some work recently on SilvaMetadata to overcome some of these
> limitations/problems for a project we're doing. This work has been merged
> with the CVS trunk of SilvaMetadata and Silva last week (just after
> releasing Silva-1.2, so these fixes will be in in an upcomming version).

Thanks for the info and the pointer to exportXML!  I have a nice script to 
reload filesystem-based metadata, and I haven't ran into the problem you 
described yet with this metadata set, so I'll stay where I am ;-)

Andy